List Mgmt. Draftee, NGA and Father/Son Discussion - 2025

[JADED]

No need to complicate things
Sharp and Lindsay

That or Sharp & Cumming.

Things may change from now til draft day but at this point, we should keep 1&2.

 

[We_The_West]

Develop Bo Allan into the Patty Cripps inside bull type contested mid.

Tom Gross becomes our Zak Butters

9

Zak Butters

Age

25

Ht

181cm

Wt

77kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.3

4star

K

7.7

3star

HB

6.7

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.8

3star

D

14.7

4star

K

8.9

4star

HB

5.9

3star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.9

4star

CL

1.1

3star

D

17.0

5star

K

9.0

4star

HB

8.0

5star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.6

4star

CL

0.6

3star

inside to outside type.

Split picks 1 and/or 2 for multiple 1sts, trade one into next year and take 3 or 4 of the following: Sharp, Cumming, Lindsay, Grlj, Rodriguez, Farrow.

Not overly excited by the top of the draft class and I think more value will be uncovered in the later picks.

 

[MaxHunt]

Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide: Top draft prospects' July ranking - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1371243

 

[Elite Pete]

 

[EagleEgo]

No top 20 from WA by Twomey?

Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide: Top draft prospects' July ranking - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1371243

 

[Barrybran]

No need to complicate things
Sharp and Lindsay

That or Sharp & Cumming.

Things may change from now til draft day but at this point, we should keep 1&2.

I really want Cumming on our list but the more I think of it, the more I wonder if Lindsay is the go. We'll still have a top 5 pick next year. The question for me is what role can we fill this year that we might not be able to fill next year.

 

[PremiershipNo4]

Trade in Darcy Cameron

14

Darcy Cameron

Age

30

Ht

204cm

Wt

103kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

6.0

1star

K

3.3

1star

HB

2.7

2star

CL

0.3

2star

HO

5.3

5star

D

7.5

2star

K

4.5

2star

HB

3.0

2star

CL

0.5

3star

HO

3.5

5star

D

6.0

2star

K

3.3

2star

HB

2.7

3star

CL

0.3

2star

HO

5.3

5star

Pick 1 CDT
Split pick 2, take the best available mids
Hope that Hewett and Gross can become permanent impactful mids in 2026, to support Harley, with further improvement from Hall.
We would be dreaming to think any 1st round mids taken this year will impact too much next year anyway, and I really do think that Sharp is overrated.
I know most of you won’t like my way of thinking, but there it is.

 

[Eastern Rangers]

If we get Pick 2 for compensation for Oscar, and we want something specific, we should target players. We need a contested body to help Reid then take Sharp? we need an elite kick, then take Lindsay?

Or maybe we skip on Lindsay and look at Farrow at pick 14. That pick will slide down to 19 or so.

No top 20 from WA by Twomey?

Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide: Top draft prospects' July ranking - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1371243

Surprised?

 

[JADED]

I really want Cumming on our list but the more I think of it, the more I wonder if Lindsay is the go. We'll still have a top 5 pick next year. The question for me is what role can we fill this year that we might not be able to fill next year.

2 elite ball users in 6 months (McCarthy + Lindsay) would be nice.
Slowly remove ALL of Duggan's kicks in the back half and replace with these two and we have to improve just on that alone.

I find Duggan's kicks fwd of centre far less an issue.

 

[Monsterdarlz]

Be very hesitant to trade down this year going of the power rankings

 

[JADED]

Be very hesitant to trade down this year going of the power rankings

Depends on what you can get.

Picks alone I wouldn't, but some of the pipe dream ideas where we trade 2 for a higher pick but get Flanders or Darcy Wilson seem nice.
The latter surely won't happen though.
Flanders possibly, but I doubt StKilda give up Wilson + a 1st just for 2 when there isn't a defined must get top 5 players. (These were random posts in this thread)

 

[Eastcoasteagle]

I quite like both rankings, and they're quite different. I know it's only 1 spot, but I'd have Schubert ahead of Marsh. He's a better forward and has more versatility.

Cummings is top 10, and Grlj shouldn't be in the top 20.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

If that many talls go inside the top 10 then it makes sense to risk the biscuit with CDT I think in the hope he becomes more then a ruck. I think we can still grab another midfielder with our 3rd pick

 

[Monsterdarlz]

Depends on what you can get.

Picks alone I wouldn't, but some of the pipe dream ideas where we trade 2 for a higher pick but get Flanders or Darcy Wilson seem nice.
The latter surely won't happen though.
Flanders possibly, but I doubt StKilda give up Wilson + a 1st just for 2 when there isn't a defined must get top 5 players. (These were random posts in this thread)

Flanders wouldn't be much early mid second guess you could make a gentlemen's agreement with gcs not to bid on there players.

Wilson would be OK perhaps picks 2 and hawks 2025 or wce 2nd for 5 and Wilson least that gives you one of sharp, Cummings, Lindsay, CDT or durs.

Wouldn't want to slide back any more then bombers or stk. 6-10 is a real dead spot this year suspect we will see a lot of reaches

 

[squashface]

is in contention to be the first ruckman to be a No.1 pick since Matthew Kreuzer

8

Matthew Kreuzer

Age

36

Ht

200cm

Wt

101kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.4

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

5.6

4star

CL

3.1

5star

HO

21.0

5star

D

1.0

1star

K

0.0

1star

HB

1.0

1star

CL

0.0

1star

HO

7.0

5star

D

11.8

3star

K

6.0

3star

HB

5.8

4star

HO

9.8

5star

in 2007

What a glowing endorsement to take CDT at pick 1

 

[Sammy J]

What a joke that, once again, 3 of the top 5 players are out of bounds for bottom clubs to pick.

Yet of course, we don't need any assistance and it's all of our own doing as to why we're in this position.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

"Need to do it like my old clubs Brisbane, Collingwood and Carlton"

Sweet, so with F/S, Academies and priority picks ... Or salary cap rorts and 30 years of failure.

Dickhead.

 

[Elite Pete]

 

[eaglevision]

The top 5 of Cal and Fox would put us in a really good position. Essendon have indicated they may be keen to jump Richmond for Duursma which leaves 2+? for 5,7.

If it’s the Hawks R1, I think we could push for their 2R to come back too. We could then send 21,24,30 for GCS for Port’s pick along with no bids. Ideally we also swap Ryan and BWilliams for Moyle. Uwland and Patterson and our picks give us huge leverage for bids to get their pick and Moyle.

1,5,7,8 hopefully gives Sharp, Cumming, Lindsay, Schubert and Moyle with pick 48 remaining to send to the Lions for Neale.

Baker HEdwards Ginbey
Allan AReid McCarthy
Cumming HReid Lindsay
Hewett Shanahan Sharp
Brockman Waterman Champion
Moyle Neale Graham
JWilliams Hall Maric Duggan
Gross

 

[Monsterdarlz]

Combine will be very important this year for the top 4/5

Lindsay looks to be a pretty solid unit if he tests well can't see why he couldn't push into midfield later on clearly very professional

 

[noobermensch]

Cody Curtin monstered his Colts opponents on his way to a bag of 6 goals and a big win for Claremont. Curtin has dropped way off the draft radar in recent months with his struggles to impact for the Academy and for WA at the Champs. This game was a solid start to getting his draft campaign back on track, but we already know that he can monster Colts opponents. From here he's likely going to need a call up to play senior WAFL footy and perform at that level to really shift perception.

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide: Top draft prospects' July ranking - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1371243

Three of the top five being academy players

 

[Barrybran]

Three of the top five being academy players

Brisbane and Gold Coast have done an incredible job with their academies. Hopefully we're looking at what they're doing and trying to replicate it.

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

Brisbane and Gold Coast have done an incredible job with their academies. Hopefully we're looking at what they're doing and trying to replicate it.

Well we can't replicate it, because not only are there limitations on who enters our academy, there's limitations on how much contact time we get with them.

 

[WCEConnor23]

I think Farrow will be high on our list, especially if we miss out on Lindsay.